Biology:Colwellia hornerae

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Short description: Species of bacterium

Colwellia hornerae
Scientific classification edit
Domain: Bacteria
Phylum: Pseudomonadota
Class: Gammaproteobacteria
Order: Alteromonadales
Family: Colwelliaceae
Genus: Colwellia
Species:
C. hornerae
Binomial name
Colwellia hornerae
Bowman et al. 1998

Colwellia hornerae is a psychrophilic Antarctic bacterial species with the ability to synthesize docosahexaenoic acid. It is nonpigmented, curved-rod-like in shape, exhibiting facultative anaerobic growth and possessing an absolute requirement for sea water. Its type strain is ACAM 607T.[1]

References

  1. Bowman, J. P.; Gosink, J. J.; McCAMMON, S. A.; Lewis, T. E.; Nichols, D. S.; Nichols, P. D.; Skerratt, J. H.; Staley, J. T. et al. (1998). "Colwellia demingiae sp. nov., Colwellia hornerae sp. nov., Colwellia rossensis sp. nov. and Colwellia psychrotropica sp. nov.: psychrophilic Antarctic species with the ability to synthesize docosahexaenoic acid (22: 63)". International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology 48 (4): 1171–1180. doi:10.1099/00207713-48-4-1171. ISSN 0020-7713. 

Further reading

  • Yumoto, Isao, ed. Cold-adapted Microorganisms. Horizon Scientific Press, 2013.
  • Brenner, Don J., et al. "Bergey's manual of systematic bacteriology, vol. 2."The Proteobacteria. East Lansing, USA 183 (2005).
  • Dworkin, Martin, and Stanley Falkow, eds. The Prokaryotes: Vol. 6: Proteobacteria: Gamma Subclass. Vol. 6. Springer, 2006.
  • Stan-Lotter, Helga, and Sergiu Fendrihan. Adaption of microbial life to environmental extremes. Springer Wien, New York, 2012.

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q16980899 entry